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On December 4th, an award ceremony for participants of AIM2Flourish, an international program on sustainable business, was held at the HSE University Graduate School of Business. This year, the initiative involved second-year students of Master's Program in International Management, united by their interest in innovative business models aimed at achieving the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

A delegation from the HSE Graduate School of Business took part in the 12th international "Responsible Management Education Research Conference" (RMERC 2025), held from October 21 to 23 in the Serbian capital by the Faculty of Organizational Sciences at the University of Belgrade and the PRME Working Group on Poverty. RMERC is one of the world's leading platforms for discussing current practices in developing responsible business education, facilitating dialogue among scholars on cutting-edge research results, and implementing new educational approaches.

The HSE University Graduate School of Business is proud to announce that Uliana Kisataeva, Master’s student in International Management and participant of the 2025 LEAP Leadership Development Programme, has become one of the winners of the UN Global Compact PRME Business Case Competition 2025.

In September, the Higher School of Economics Graduate School of Business hosted interactive master classes for more than 500 first-year students with one of Russia’s leading sustainability experts. ESG expert Svetlana Ivchenko introduced students of the flagship undergraduate programs Business Administration and Marketing and Market Analytics not only to practices and strategies of sustainable development management in major Russian metallurgical companies, but also to her personal experience of professional transformation as a top manager grounded in values. The master classes were held as part of the career guidance seminar “The Profession of a Manager in the Modern World”, organized by one of its instructors — Associate Professor Ekaterina Ivanova of the Department of Strategic and International Management, who familiarized students with the theory and practice of ethics, responsibility, and sustainability in contemporary business.

The initiative of the Graduate School of Business at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE GSB) has been named a laureate of the annual “Best ESG Projects in Russia” program. The results were announced on June 25 in Moscow.

Ekaterina Gavenko, a PhD student at the HSE Graduate School of Business, took part in the VII BRICS Youth Energy Summit, where participants discussed key challenges in sustainable development and the energy transition. At the summit, Ekaterina shared the Russian experience in hydropower, engaged in international discussions with experts from India, the UAE, and Brazil, and presented the results of her own research carried out under the guidance of GSB faculty. In this interview, she speaks about her journey from master’s to PhD studies, the importance of an expert academic environment, the support she received from faculty members, and offers advice to students looking to engage with the international research community.

The winners of the prestigious 2024 Flourish Prize international competition dedicated to celebration of business as an agent of world benefit are this year's graduates of the Master's programme in International Management at the HSE Graduate School of Business. Daria Plotnikova, Ahmad Fahim Enayat, Nim Sisil Damayantha Panavala Kankanamge, Zohrab Serobian and Aysenem Bazarova, under the guidance of Ekaterina Ivanova, Associate Professor of GSB Strategic and International Management Department, won the 2024 Flourish Prize. They were awarded for the story of ‘Digital Technologies and Rehabilitation’ from Motorica company in the nomination of the UN Global Goal 3 ‘Good Health and Wellbeing’.

HSE University has been named first among 27 Russian universities ranked by QS Sustainability.